friseur

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A hairdresser; a coiffeur.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A hairdresser.

Etymologies

French, from friser, to curl; see frizz1.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

From French friseur, from friser ("to curl, frizz"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

I had a gentleman to wait upon me, a French friseur to dress my hair of a morning; I knew the taste of chocolate as by intuition almost, and could distinguish between the right Spanish and the French before I had been a week in my new position; I had rings on all my fingers, watches in both my fobs, canes, trinkets, and snuffboxes of all sorts, and each outvying the other in elegance.

If he visits her when she is dressed, and perceives the least impropriety in her coeffure, he insists upon adjusting it with his own hands: if he sees a curl, or even a single hair amiss, he produces his comb, his scissars, and pomatum, and sets it to rights with the dexterity of a professed friseur.